RIP Mentoring Programme

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

One thing that I was going to do for the Xubuntu docs this time around was
to have a new contributor "getting started," session on IRC.  I'd publicize
it on the doc and translator mailing lists, and on the Planet Ubuntu.
Something like this might also help the Ubuntu doc team orient newer
participants.

By the time I get ready to have the session, I will have outlined what
sections of the documentation would require work, and would assign
particular people to small chunks of that work.  I have a roadmap set up for
Xubuntu docs [1] that goes through some of this, and am going to set up an
Assignments page similar to what I set up for the Hardy release [2].  I
figure if I can get four or five people to help write one or two sections
each, that should be enough for what we need to do.

An Ubuntu-doc "welcome session," might steal some of the thunder of a my
proposed xubuntu-doc session, but I think it would be a good way to rally up
some participation, because it would allow possible contributors to ask
task-specific questions.  I know that we have the Ubuntu Open Week sessions,
but open-house/getting-started session would be more task-focused than an
Open Week session, which tends to focus more on "this is what the doc team
does . . . ".

Let me know what you think,

Jim

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Documentation/JauntyRoadmap
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Documentation/HardyAssignments
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